Ryan Leas

It’s finally here. At midnight, we were all able to hear Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar’s first album in five years. We’ll have more to say about that soon. But, in the meantime, here’s even more good news. Kendrick has announced the Big Steppers tour,  » Read More

Today, PC Music have dropped a new compilation called Volume 3, collecting “hits from 2018-2021 alongside upcoming, unreleased and unreleasable music.” One of those finds felicita teaming up with fellow pop experimentalists Kero Kero Bonito for a song called “Cluck.” The song had been performed live before, but now you can hear its official recorded version.  » Read More

In the wake of the Walkmen, the band’s individual members started churning out music. For example, former frontman Hamilton Leithauser stormed right out the gates with 2014’s Black Hours, and then followed that with his 2016 album-length collab with Rostam, I Had A Dream That You Were Mine.  » Read More

SNL is wrapping up their latest season with a bang. Tomorrow, Post Malone is coming by with Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold. And now they’ve also announced the lineup for next week’s season finale.  » Read More

The Black Keys’ new album Dropout Boogie has arrived. In case you missed it yesterday, we spoke to Dan Auerbach about the new album and a whole bunch of other stuff from across his career. And last night, he and Patrick Carney swung by Jimmy Kimmel Live!  » Read More

A month ago, Air’s JB Dunckel announced a new solo album called Carbon. At the time, he also shared lead single “Corporate Sunset.” Today, he’s back with another one.  » Read More

No Joy is back with another song for Bandcamp Friday. Jasamine White-Gluz has returned with something a bit different, though: a cover of the All Saints hit “Pure Shores.” It also features guest vocals from marsfade. White-Gluz plays it pretty straight, keeping a lot of elements of the original intact. This being No Joy,  » Read More

Eve 6, as you have no doubt realized, has developed a whole new renaissance era partially fueled by Max Collins’ self-aware and amusing Twitter presence. You know who else has a history of quippy self-reflexive online behavior? Titus Andronicus’ Patrick Stickles. Apparently, the two are now friends.  » Read More

John Ringhofer is about to return with a new Half-Handed Cloud album. It’s called Flutterama, and it’s out at the end of June.  » Read More